Dorothy Chun (Ph.D. in Germanic Linguistics, UC Berkeley) is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Education at UC Santa Barbara. Her research areas include several aspects of Second Language Acquisition: L2 phonology and intonation, L2 reading and vocabulary acquisition, and technologies for the acquisition of language and intercultural communicative competence. She has conducted studies on cognitive processes in learning with multimedia and has authored CD-ROMs and websites for language and culture acquisition. Her publications include Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice, 2002, John Benjamins and articles in Modern Language Journal, Foreign Language Annals, System, CALL, Journal of Educational Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, and the online journal, Language Learning and Technology, which she has edited since 2000.